The Lady of Sing Sing: An American Countess, an Italian Immigrant, and Their Epic Battle for Justice in New York's Gilded Age

by Idanna Pucci

Book Overview

This "gripping social history" (Publishers Weekly), with all the passion and pathos of a classic opera, chronicles the riveting first campaign against the death penalty waged in 1895 by American pioneer activist, Cora Slocomb, Countess of Brazz , to save the life of a twenty-year-old illiterate Italian immigrant, Maria Barbella, who killed the man who had abused her.

Previously published as The Trials of Maria Barbella...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982139315
• ISBN13: 9781982139315
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: S&s/Simon Element
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"